Selected Writing from The Common

“Bella Figura” (Poetry)-2018

“Reading Gabriel García Márquez in the Age of Trump” (essay)- 2017

“Reading in Public: An Elegy” (essay)-2017

“An Ivoirian Writer Takes on Genital Excision” (interview)-2016

“Ivoirians Dream of America, Undeterred by Trump” (essay)-2016

“Place Love” (essay)-2016

“Horizontal Feminists: An Interview with Alexander Chee”-2016

“Review: The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee”-2016

“Moussa v. Meursault: Algerian Grudge Match Over The Stranger” (review)-2015

“Nostalgia, History, Memory: Patrick Leigh Fermor Reaches the End of His Road”-2014

“Whole Cloth: A Weaver’s Daughter Looks at the Met’s Interwoven Globe Exhibit” (essay)-2014

“Who’s Writing Real Brooklyn Stories?” (essay)-2013

“Swimming in Two Parts” (essay)-2013

“Unconventional Indicators” (essay)-2012

“Stolen Bride: A Guatemalan Woman’s Story” (as-told-to-memoir)-2012